Across
- 4. lawthat allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a small fee of about $30
- 6. law that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the US from certain countries;
- 7. cramped quarters on the lower decks of the ships where immigrants traveled to the US (cheap)
- 9. law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
- 14. a run-down, overcrowded apartment building
- 15. against immigration
- 16. to move from one place to another
- 19. people moving to cities
- 20. Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west
- 21. Immigration processing center that open in New York City, immigrants from European countries were processed
Down
- 1. African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War
- 2. form of protection which allows people to remain in the US instead of being deported (refugees)
- 3. a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region-bad things
- 5. to leave your home country
- 8. Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas--good things
- 10. blending in with the dominant culture (verb is to assimilate)
- 11. land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans, lands are small and poor quality
- 12. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
- 13. area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background ex) Chinatown, Little Italy
- 17. immigration station in San Francisco Bay where immigrants from Asian countries were processed
- 18. to move into a new country